When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF after the contest was over. When I was in grad school, I would have loved to have a device like the Kinect. [...]
I just wanted to give a quick update on one thing I mentioned in my search engine spam post. My post mentioned that “we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.” That [...]
Conventional search engines focus upon the words that they find on a web page rather than the meanings of those words. So, when you search for something like [cooking classes Palo Alto], a search engine might look for all of the pages that it can find that include all of those words. If it [...] [...]
One of the challenges facing someone when they first decide to start a blog is figuring out what to write about, whom to write for, and how to incoporate blogging into their daily routine. This is true for businesses that to decide to add a blog to their website as well. Coming up with [...] [...]
(Just as a reminder: while I am a Google employee, the following post is my personal opinion.) Recently I read a fascinating essay that I wanted to comment on. I found it via Ars Technica and it discusses “search neutrality” (PDF link, but I promise it’s worth it). It’s written by James Grimmelmann, an associate [...]
www.NeilShearing.com A look at how Google Places, Shopping Results and Brand Name Results are changing the face of SEO and what it means for anyone who uses “organic listings” to get free traffic from Google. From the original blog post… “Have you noticed a drop in Google organic SEO traffic for any “local” search phrases, [...]
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Back on August 20th of 2010, Google Software Engineer Samarth Keshava published a post titled Showing more results from a domain, telling us: Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that [...] [...]
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Microsoft was granted a new patent today, Search ranger system and double-funnel model for search spam analyses and browser protection (US Patent 7,873,635), which provides a detailed look at how Bing might attempt to identify search spammers who redirect traffic from search results pages to pages filled with advertising or other content intended to [...] [...]